Article
'Skinking' and 'Stinking': the Printing and Proofing of Robert Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1787)
Book Collector
(2016)
Abstract
Reviews the origin and reconstructs the printing time-table for the two settings of Robert Burns's second collection, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1787), arguing that some distinctive variant readings in the second ('Stinking') setting may have been made by Burns himself.
Keywords
- William Smellie,
- Scottish poetry,
- book history,
- Scottish literature,
- Robert Burns
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December, 2016
Citation Information
Patrick G. Scott and Craig Lamont. "'Skinking' and 'Stinking': the Printing and Proofing of Robert Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1787)" Book Collector Vol. 65 Iss. 4 (2016) p. 601 - 616 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick_scott/315/